books about: sponsored     books:       The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing3 reviews Michael Mann Cambridge University Press, 2004 Fair book, interesting thesis, but read his "Fascists" first I liked this book, and found it to be a nice companion piece to Mann's book on fascists. In fact, I would say these two books are really best seen as two volumes of a single work on the forces that create and sustain organic nationalism, and then propel it down the path of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Is this specific work and the larger treatise on organic nationalism flawed? Yes, of course, ...             Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia8 reviews Steve Levine Random House, 2008 Agree or Disagree with it, a Book To Read Steve LeVine's compelling and engagingly horrified study of the 'dark heart of the new Russia' stands head and shoulders above the spate of books triggered by the Litvinenko murder because it is not about one killing so much as 'a chronicle of violence in modern-day Russia, a place that seems unwilling or unable to escape its horrific past.' (p. xxii) It is difficult in general terms to resist ...             Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism1 review Jeanne Guillemin Columbia University Press, 2006 Policies of use, deterrence, and proliferation Biological weapons and their potentials has received public attention relatively recently in this country, and for a basic primer on the topic, don't miss Jeanne Guillemin's Biological Weapons, designed to help readers understand the relevance of these weapons and their use. Chapters examine policies of use, deterrence, and proliferation, considering conflicts between media rights and secrecy in ...             Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda, Third Edition2 reviews Philip M. Taylor Manchester University Press, 2003 An Undergraduate's Perspective As an undergraudate studying a Propaganda course at Durham University, the book was invaluable. For everyone on the course, it was the unofficial textbook. The key to its success is its masterful combination of bredth and depth. It illuminates critical issues well with examples giving a lively history of propaganda throughout. It also never isolates propaganda from the wider context. I ...             Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition sponsored by ...23 reviews Zahi Hawass National Geographic, 2005 Very good book I bought the book before seeing the tour in Philly. The book is very well done, and very good representation of the tour. Beautiful photographs, plus good rich text around the history of the 18th dynasty. Other reviews talk about the tour, which isn't really what the book is about. The tour was rather crowded, and I was somewhat disappointed that all the objects were small, and no Tut ...             Grasses: An Identification Guide (Sponsored by the Roger Tory Peterson Institute)11 reviews Houghton Mifflin, 1992 Fantastic Book I am a former student of Mrs. Brown, from her Botany class at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. This guide is outstanding, and her original illustrations are genuine. As of the time of the original publication, there was absolutely nothing at all to guide students to identify grasses. Other guides copied the concept, but Lauren's is still the pioneer in this field.             Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global ...19 reviews Daniel Wilkinson Duke University Press, 2004 you must read this book time and again i let myself be surprised by the atrocious acts committed or supported by my government. the hypocricy of the CIA and of US foreign policy in general is nothing new, but this book tells guatemala's story from a very personal angle. the repressive practices of the post-50's guatemalan government are shocking and important to understand in and of themselves, along with the US ...             Guatemala: Never Again!2 reviews Orbis Books, 1999 Factually Honest and Well Researched This book is a summarization of a human rights report presented in Guatemala in 1998. Through eye-witness testimony, it outlines the military atrocities committed during Guatemala's Civil War and the effect the war has had on Guatemala's indigenous population. This edition has been edited from the original lengthy report but retains important testimony in smaller quotes where relevant and ...             Fahrenheit 4511268 reviews Ray Bradbury Ballantine Books, 1996 Ominous reading I remember seeing the movie based on this book with Oskar Werner and Julie Christie when I was a teenager and discussing it with my teachers. As you read the book many similarities can be seen today, such as large billboards, people not talking to each other, a society dependent on drugs and entertainment and reality TV shows and of course the rushing around in a rat race. Whats amazing is that ...             Sponsored Identities Pb (Puerto Rican Studies)2 reviews Arlene Davila Temple University Press, 1997 One of the best books on Puerto Rico, a must read. This is a very acute study of cultural politics in Puerto Rico. The author exposes the dynamics that make culture such an important forum to debate identity among Puerto Ricans on the island and abroad. It is an excellent book and a must read for anyone interested in contemporary Puerto Rican studies.             Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II: Sponsored by ... Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007 The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume IIbrings together state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the multiple ways through which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It forefronts as central to literacy education the visual, communicative, and performative arts, ...             Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School: The First Report from a Study of High Schools, ...2 reviews Theodore Sizer Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984 changing lives as a framework for understanding the coallition of essential schools (a type of restructuring which changes the school into a place that works for students, not against them) this book is amazing. looking at the flaws of america's public school system, this book is one that offers suggestions for change in a way that anyone can understand. horace, a characiture of many teachers, leads the way ...             The History Of Texas Music (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, Sponsored by the Centre for Texas ...1 review Gary Hartman Texas A&M University Press, 2008 Reviewing: "The History of Texas Music" Written by Austin resident and founding director of the "Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University" Gary Hartman chronicles the background and history of what he defines as Texas music. He attempts to define what Texas music was and is today. That definition can basically be boiled down to being part of anything and everything out there in music. He then attempts to show how the ...             Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (Ethnography of Political Violence)1 review University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 Good book on state terror. This is a good starting point for any reader interested in the subject of state terror. The book is really a series of chapters written by various authors about different examples of state sponsored terror like: Guatemala, Spain, and Northern Ireland. Sluka, who is the editor for the book, also wrote a chapter on Northern Ireland, where he lived during different periods of the war. Sluka's ...             Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America4 reviews J. Patrice McSherry Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005 Understanding why they hate Uncle Sam south of the border This is a must read, especially if you're still puzzled by seemingly unanimous worldwide contempt for Washington. With lucid prose, thorough documentation and gory detail, historian McSherry leads her reader to the inescapable conclusion that, in Latin America at least, the U.S. government rarely lets respect for human rights get in the way of self-interest. As the Reagan team reassured the ...             Department of Defense Sponsored Information Security Research: New Methods for Protecting Against Cyber ... Department of Defense Wiley, 2007 After September 11th, the Department of Defense (DoD) undertook a massive and classified research project to develop new security methods using technology in order to protect secret information from terrorist attacks Written in language accessible to a general technical reader, this book examines the best methods for testing the vulnerabilities of networks and software that have been proven and tested during the past five years An ...             Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda, Third Edition2 reviews Philip M. Taylor Manchester University Press, 2003 An Undergraduate's Perspective As an undergraudate studying a Propaganda course at Durham University, the book was invaluable. For everyone on the course, it was the unofficial textbook. The key to its success is its masterful combination of bredth and depth. It illuminates critical issues well with examples giving a lively history of propaganda throughout. It also never isolates propaganda from the wider context. I ...             The Assassination Business: A History of State-Sponsored Murder3 reviews Richard Belfield Carroll & Graf, 2005 American Ostrichs This author, Richard Belfield, stepped on a few toes with this book, and as is always the case, an ostrich will cry out when someone tries to pull his/her head out of the sand. Official documents from the U.S. government, formerly classified as Top Secret and Eyes Only for the President, were recently declassified, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (http://foia.fbi.gov/). These ...             The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s1 review Hiroaki Kuromiya Yale University Press, 2007 Written record of totalitarian terror Professor Kuromiya has produced a work on a topic much covered in historical literature: Stalin's reign of terror. What Kuromiya adds is a record of the original sources of documentation kept by the Soviet secret police. These notes offer "bureaucratically efficient" records of each prisoner's dialogue with captors, interrogators and torturers. The language is bland, like a record from the ...             Origami 3: Third International Meeting of Orgami Science, Mathematics, and Education Sponsored by Origami USA AK Peters, Ltd., 2002 Going beyond folding instructions, Origami3 takes a unique and scholarly look at the implications and applications of this art. This collection of essays from The Third International Meeting of Origami Science, Math, and Education demonstrates the diversity of interests that origami inspires, discussing the theoretical and mathematical foundations of paper folding, applicable origami design techniques, and the use of origami as a teaching tool ...              search for books anthropology, assassination, association, biological, bioterrorism, co-sponsored, communicative, compromise, contemporary, department, encounters, ethnography, exhibition, explaining, fahrenheit, forgetting, geographic, identification, identities, information, institute, interactions, international, mathematics, propaganda, protecting, sponsored, state-sponsored, tutankhamun, university books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Oral Motor Assessment and Treatment: Ages and Stages leave a comment home  impressum - about us